Academy, Mary Pickford Foundation Celebrate Silent Film with Two Restored Classics

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Mary Pickford Foundation will continue their annual celebration of silent film with screenings of two silent film classics from 1928.

The Academy will screen “The Crowd” on Tuesday, October 22, and “The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg” on Thursday, October 24 – at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. 

Film historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow, who supervised the restoration of both films, will introduce the screenings, which feature a stereo musical score composed by Carl Davis.  The programs begin at 7:30 p.m.

 

 

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